I will not be checking back in so there is no point in replying this post.

Malcolm

I'd like everyone who wishes that Maclolm come back to please reply to this post. Malcolm's posts have quite literally changed my life and I am sure they have for others and will continue to. This community isn't the same without you Malcolm.

Sad news, you will be missed malcolm. I've been following him since e-sangha days, must be somewhere around 10 years ? He's been a teacher, one thing I have to say is he has more patience than anybody I know, lol, and he uses a lot of his time and energy helping people online, he has definitely been a major teacher / spiritual friend in the online Buddhist community and the evolution of Buddhist online communities and Buddhism as it adapts or evolves in the west.I've taken many twists and turns on my path through the years, and it's very good to hear more experienced practitioners share their twists and turns, evolution, on the dharma highway. For those that don't know he did the 3 year retreat, is an acharya in the Sakya lineage, is a Tibetan Doctor, a well known accomplished translator, and quite a scholar, though he would never identify with the term, lol. One can learn a lot from ones elders, more than just from books.

I would like to say thank you for sharing so much of your time and energy and experience and knowledge, and putting up with so much B.S. for so many years, lol, on behalf of myself and many people I am sure, be well.

This is starting to sound like a eulogy so I'll just shut up and look forward to following his blog,

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The nonexistence of the transcendence of suffering is what the protector of the world has taught as the transcendenceof suffering.Knots tied on spaceare untied by space itself.

May I never be seperated from perfect masters in all lives,and delightfully experiencing the magnificent dharma,completing all qualities of the stages of the pathsmay I quickly attain the state of Vajradhara

Tarpa wrote:Sad news, you will be missed malcolm. I've been following him since e-sangha days, must be somewhere around 10 years ? He's been a teacher, one thing I have to say is he has more patience than anybody I know, lol, and he uses a lot of his time and energy helping people online, he has definitely been a major teacher / spiritual friend in the online Buddhist community and the evolution of Buddhist online communities and Buddhism as it adapts or evolves in the west.I've taken many twists and turns on my path through the years and it's very good that more experienced practitioners share their twists and turns, evolution, on the dharma highway.

This is starting to sound like a eulogy so I'll just shut up and look forward to following his blog,

Few people can translate Dzogchen texts, and there is little more important than that... better to have uninterrupted time to do it.

I will not be checking back in so there is no point in replying this post.

Malcolm

Oh you will be back after a while. There is too much of a community built over so many years from the E-Sangha days to say goodbye permanently. Its a journey we all share.

Till then!

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true of false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

Malcolm was saying things that people didn't want to hear. DW is beginning to manifest the same anger, aggression, cultural and intellectual xenophobia that is afflicting the world outside. Inevitable and understandable, but a bloody shame nevertheless.

underthetree wrote:Malcolm was saying things that people didn't want to hear. DW is beginning to manifest the same anger, aggression, cultural and intellectual xenophobia that is afflicting the world outside. Inevitable and understandable, but a bloody shame nevertheless.

Apart from the last clause exactly so. Its not a shame at all. I think Malcolm has a degree of maturity not common and I believe him when he says he wont be reading any replies. So I am not going to dishonour that by addressing remarks purportedly to him but that are actually about my own feelings.I think it WAS inevitable that it would reach this point.The degree of homophobia, folk belief, faux asiatic life style imitation, sheer unpleasantness, rampant egoism disguised as spirituality, sheer credulity, and new age wooliness, the willful and fearful embracing of a pre-Age Of Enlightenment cosmology that dislocates the holder of such views from their present reality, and other elements that characterises much of the forum input made it inevitable.But above all anyone following his posts carefully , not simply with a view to arguing with him, will have seen that he has gone beyond the provisional and banal realities of " Buddhism " and found Dharma.Anyone really inspired by his journey would do well to consider doing likewise.

underthetree wrote:Malcolm was saying things that people didn't want to hear. DW is beginning to manifest the same anger, aggression, cultural and intellectual xenophobia that is afflicting the world outside. Inevitable and understandable, but a bloody shame nevertheless.

Apart from the last clause exactly so. Its not a shame at all. I think Malcolm has a degree of maturity not common and I believe him when he says he wont be reading any replies. So I am not going to dishonour that by addressing remarks purportedly to him but that are actually about my own feelings.I think it WAS inevitable that it would reach this point.The degree of homophobia, folk belief, faux asiatic life style imitation, sheer unpleasantness, rampant egoism disguised as spirituality, sheer credulity, and new age wooliness, the willful and fearful embracing of a pre-Age Of Enlightenment cosmology that dislocates the holder of such views from their present reality, and other elements that characterises much of the forum input made it inevitable.But above all anyone following his posts carefully , not simply with a view to arguing with him, will have seen that he has gone beyond the provisional and banal realities of " Buddhism " and found Dharma.Anyone really inspired by his journey would do well to consider doing likewise.

Simon,

Your words would have much more power if they had come from someone who hadn't announced (in a very melodramatic way) more than once that they were leaving this forum and having nothing more to do with it.